PXE

[Luke Davis]

Right, sorry, forgot about this.  I thought it was Microsoft, but not
sure.  The only servers curently supporting it, are Win 2k server
eddition.  I have a network of XP Pro machines at one site (the one I'm
working from today, actually), and that was the only network booting
option they could use.  This presented a problem, because most machines
didn't have CD drives, and had no operating systems.  I tried to do a
Samba install of XP, using nanobox as a temporary OS on the PCs, to
connect to our Linux Samba server, but nanobox would not boot on the PCs.
Thus, I ended up having to carry a CD drive to each machine, and having
only two or three working CD drives on site that day, this took quite a
while.

It would have been a lot quicker, if Linux could have served the files via
PXE.

Regards,

Luke

 On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Alex Snow wrote:

> It's a protocol devised by I think intel for network booting.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm at pcdesk.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 9:38 PM
> Subject: Re: PXE
>
>
> > Could someone tell me what PXE is?
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Luke Davis" <ldavis at shellworld.net>
> > To: <Speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 11:10 PM
> > Subject: OT: PXE
> >
> >
> > > Does anyone know if there is work on-going, to allow Linux to work as a
> > > PXE server?  I have great interest in this, as it effects a couple of
> > > corporate networks which I administer.
> > >
> > > Of course, to make it a little more on topic: if there is some utility
> for
> > > this, can Speakup work with it?:)
> > >
> > > Luke
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